The first man in space
Fifty years ago today, the first man went into space. At the time I was 12 and found the whole thing enormously exciting. The Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became one of the most famous men in history and today we remember his feat.
Of course, the space race between the USSR and the USA was a kind of madness and incredible risks were taken by both nations in the interests of beating the other. The human side of these technological events in well-covered in this book.